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Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???)

Date 2012-08-25 16:31 +0100
From Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk>
Subject Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???)
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On 25/08/2012 13:57, David Robinow wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:29:00 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>
>>> It appears to be a change Google made in the last month or two... My
>>> hypothesis is that they are replacing hard EOL found in inbound NNTP
>>> with an HTML <p>, and then on outgoing replacing the <p> with a pair of
>>> NNTP line endings. In contrast, text composed on Google is coming in as
>>> long single lines (since quoting said text in a response produces on a
>>> ">" at the start of the paragraph.
>>
>> Google Groups sucks. These are computer literate people here. Why don't
>> they just use a proper newsreader?
> I haven't used a newsreader in over a decade. I'm quite happy with a
> mailing list. Am I missing something?

Not really. I'm the same; it just means you can skip over the occasional 
ggroups-newsreader discussion threads which pop up
about 3 times a year on average.

:)

TJG

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Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-08-22 12:43 -0400
  Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???) Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-08-24 07:44 -0700
    Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-08-24 12:04 -0400
    Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???) Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-08-24 14:29 -0400
      Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???) Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> - 2012-08-24 19:03 +0000
        Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???) Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-08-24 17:56 -0400
          Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???) Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> - 2012-08-24 22:55 +0000
        Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-08-24 18:03 -0400
        Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???) Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2012-08-24 15:15 -0700
        Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???) Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-24 23:28 +0100
        Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???) Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2012-08-24 15:36 -0700
        Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???) Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2012-08-24 15:39 -0700
        Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???) David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com> - 2012-08-25 08:57 -0400
        Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???) Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2012-08-25 16:31 +0100
  Re: Filter versus comprehension (was Re: something about split()???) Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-08-24 07:44 -0700

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